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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Adam,
As far as I know, there is no out of the box solution for editing the 
templates in a WYSIWYG way.
Actually it is sure a hard task, as you must take into account that the 
final result displayed often varies regarding who is watching it.
Additionally, we use i18n tags that, though not eccentric (loc and 
help_loc), are Sympa-specific and would probably be unknown to solutions 
designed for any other product.

However, the solution you suggest could probably be applied to the most 
simple templates, those in which the algorithmic functioning is not too 
complex.

Please submit a feature request if you want it to be implemented.

Regards,

Adam Bernstein a écrit :
> Hey folks.  Has anybody found any kind of elegant solution to the 
> problem of average users attempting to customize Sympa templates and 
> either being totally confused by them or breaking them because of all 
> the code?  Between the MIME code, TT2 template code, and i18n code, 
> the templates are basically completely unreadable and uneditable by 
> average users, and we're thinking of disabling template editing 
> entirely and just forcing them to submit manual requests to us.  But 
> I'm dreaming of some kind of intelligent WYSIWYG template editing tool 
> that would omit and protect all the necessary code, so that we can 
> continue offering this feature in a do-it-yourself way.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's way harder than it's worth for anyone to 
> create, but maybe there's some alternative or partial solution out there.
>
> Thanks!
>       adam

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David Verdin
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